1. "She'll be there," my husband said. "I don't see how they could hold a P.T.A. meeting without Charles's mother."
    "她会去开会的。" 我丈夫说。"如果没有查尔斯的母亲参加，我不明白他们怎么可能召开家长会。"

2. "Charles?" she said. "We don't have any Charles in the kindergarten."
    "查尔斯？"她说。"我们幼儿园里可没有什么叫查尔斯的孩子。"

3. "My name has always made me think I should be a cook," she complained. "I just don't feel like a Debbie."
    "我的名字老是使我觉得自己应该是一个女厨子," 她抱怨道。"我真的不想要黛比这个名字。"

4. "Don't you have any taste of your own?"
    "难道你们没有自己的鉴赏力？"

5. "Don't give yourself impossible things, but things that will affect your identity, control and self-worth."
    别让自己去做不可能做到的事，而是做那些会影响你的个性、控制能力和自尊心的事情。"

6. don't know how or when to relax, bring work home from the office, can't communicate well with fellow workers and family members, and have unbalanced, one-dimensional lives.
    他们不知道怎样或何时放松一下, 经常把办公室里的活儿带回家里去做，不善于和同事及家人交流沟通，生活作息不平衡, 单调乏味。

7. All of us are going to be creators and pioneers over the next 10 years whether we like it or not, and many of us don't like it.
    不管我们喜欢与否，在以后的10年里我们都得创造和开拓，当然我们当中有许多人并不喜欢这样。

8. A large proportion of America's young men — one third or more — simply say they don't know what they're going to do as adults.
    很大比例的美国男青年--三分之一或更多--只是说他们不知道在成年以后要做什么。

9. As it happens, we don't plan to live in America. It was challenging enough going there on vacation.
    我们幸好不打算住在美国, 但要到那里去度假也是够恼人的。

10. "No, no, don't do that. I can't stand it.
    "别，别开那么响，我受不了。